Overview
Discover Sustainability is an open access journal publishing research across all fields relevant to sustainability.
- Average number of article downloads in 12 months after publication is 8,007*, with a CiteScore 2022 of 2.2 (based on article downloads after publication Jan 2020 to Jan 2021).
- Indexed in Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, and DOAJ
- Topics include food security, biodiversity conservation, circular economy, and more.
- A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Professor Walter Leal Filho
- Impact factor
- 2.6 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 2.6 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 17 days
- Downloads
- 322,191 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Introducing In Review
In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Sustainability. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:
- Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review
- Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level
- Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.
See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 2662-9984
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- Baidu
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EI Compendex
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCOPUS
- TD Net Discovery Service
- Wanfang
- Copyright information